Removing forklift battery cells

[Board shortener Tom]

I recently picked up a small Yale electric forklift. Of course it has a bad battery and my plan is to keep the box that the cells are in and use 6 volt golf cart batteries in it. It's not something I will use often or for any length of time so I don't need the original style battery. My question is: So any of you have suggestions on how to get the old cells out of the case? I've clamped a hi lift jack above the roll cage and tried to free a few different cells up by using a ratchet strap under the lead bars that connect the cells to but the bars keep popping off at the solder joints of the cell posts. I'm considering running a lag bolt into the 2 posts on each to see if those will hold. I have lubed around the cells I have tried to pull already.

Thanks everyone!

 

[Board shortener Tom]

I recently picked up a small Yale electric forklift. Of course it has a bad battery and my plan is to keep the box that the cells are in and use 6 volt golf cart batteries in it. It's not something I will use often or for any length of time so I don't need the original style battery. My question is: So any of you have suggestions on how to get the old cells out of the case? I've clamped a hi lift jack above the roll cage and tried to free a few different cells up by using a ratchet strap under the lead bars that connect the cells to but the bars keep popping off at the solder joints of the cell posts. I'm considering running a lag bolt into the 2 posts on each to see if those will hold. I have lubed around the cells I have tried to pull already.

Thanks everyone!

Seems like the lag bolt idea works! I got the first cell moving quite easily this way. Maybe this will help someone out in the future. The plywood is 1/2" Baltic birch but almost anything would work in it's place.

 

[ajhbike]

cool, I will use that idea in the future